Digitalization of the Propositional Calculus and the Monadic Functional Calculus by ACF Electronics, Data Processing Department; Alonzo Church (his copy) - 1956

Washington, D. C.: ACF Electronics, 1956. Near Fine condition. Scientific Report No. AFCRC-TN-56-176. "The research reported in this report has been sponsored by the Air Force Cambridge Research Center, Air Research and Development Center." Bound in the original spiral bound, black immitation leather binder, stiff but flexible with "ACF Electronics" in gold on the cover. This volume was among several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature, or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately, this volume does not have those signs of his ownership. [But please check our inventory for several others that do]. Alonzo Church (1903 - 1995) was professor of mathematics at Princeton University (1929-1967) and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA (1967-1990). He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem, Church's Thesis, and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic, recursion theory, theoretical computer science, and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, British Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. It was Church who coined the phase "Turing machine." [For more on Church's contributions, see items 250, 251, 321, 394, and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE, A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING...]. 9" wide by 11.5" tall. Keywords: Logic. Calculus. Pre-computer history. First Edition. Oversize flexible boards. Near Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. iii, 33pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.